- The tendency of individuals to show the same response pattern to particular situations throughout their life span

Individual Response Stereotypy

Distinct facial expressions in nonhuman primates:
- grimace (fear or surprise
- tense mouth (anger)
- play face (human laugh)

Redican's Viewpoint of Evolution of Emotions

- Certain expressions of emotions are universal among all people
- Do nonhuman animals show similar expressions of emotions?
- Argued that emotional expression originated in a common ancestor
- Behavioral phenomena, nonhuman primates have the same facial muscles that humans have

Darwin's Viewpoint of Evolution of Emotions

- Darwin's perspective
- Redican's perspective
- Evolutionary psychology

New York University

- Theories of emotion
- Evolutionary viewpoint of emotions
- How many emotions are there
- Brain circuits for different emotions
- Neural circuitry of violence and aggression
- Stress and body responses
- Emotions and the immune system

Subjects in emotions, aggression and stress in the brain

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

Behavioral Neuroscience 8th Edition

- Electrical stimulation of the brain, brain lesions, and neural circuitry affect emotion.



Brain circuits for different emotions

- Examining the kinds of emotions by examining different kinds of facial expressions

How many emotions do we experience

- Aggression
- Androgens seem to increase aggression
- Aggression has several neurochemical correlates
- A topic of controversy

Neural circuitry of violence and aggression

Theories of emotion are frameworks developed to explain how the various components of emotion, such as physiological arousal, psychological appraisal, and subjective experience, interact with one another to produce an emotional state.

Theories of Emotion

- The stress response
- Individual differences in stress responses

Stress and Body Responses

- Psychosomatic Medicine
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- The Immune System
- Psychological Stress and Immunity

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